Serving Education and Training Markets Since 2006

Search Results for:

Blackboard and Pearson Announce International Content Integration Partnership

Market-leading LMS and World’s Leading Learning Companies Bring Seamless Transition Between Pearson’s MyLab & Mastering and Blackboard Learn to Global Markets By Blackboard Inc.; Pearson Published: Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012 – 8:54 am WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Blackboard Inc. and Pearson have expanded the availability of an integration for Pearson’s leading learning solution […]

Blackboard and Pearson Announce International Content Integration Partnership Read More »

Blackboard’s Connecting Your LMS to your CRM Presentation – ASTD Training Industry Presentation

Gilfus Education Television Network. A Training Industry Insight presentation at the Gilfus Education Group’s Innovation Showcase Theater: “Connecting your LMS to your CRM” presented by Blackboard. Recorded at the annual ASTD Conference, Denver. May 2012. Know More. Sell More. Blackboard joined forces with salesforce.com to dramatically impact the way businesses train and educate their sales

Blackboard’s Connecting Your LMS to your CRM Presentation – ASTD Training Industry Presentation Read More »

Blackboard Launches Open Source Services Group

Blackboard Inc. today announced the launch of Blackboard Education Open Source Services, a new effort to support clients using open source education technologies. With the announcement, the company will continue to focus on its flagship Blackboard Learn ™ platform as well as ANGEL and Edline, while also helping institutions successfully manage open source learning management systems (LMS) including Moodle and Sakai.

Blackboard Launches Open Source Services Group Read More »

Blackboard Appoints Sakai Foundation Board Member Charles Severance to Lead Company’s Sakai Initiatives

Blackboard Inc. today announced the appointment of Charles Severance, a longtime leader and one of the founders of the Sakai community, to a senior role to lead the company’s initiative on the Sakai open source learning management system (LMS).

Blackboard Appoints Sakai Foundation Board Member Charles Severance to Lead Company’s Sakai Initiatives Read More »

Blackboard Absorbs Edline, Keeps Product Line Intact

By Dian Schaffhauser 10/05/11 A day after its acquisition of Blackboard was completed, Providence Equity Partners has begun leveraging its multiple investments in education technology. Two of its companies–Blackboard and Edline–have announced an immediate merging. Edline will become another division in Blackboard’s portfolio. Both companies sell learning management and mass notification products to the K-12

Blackboard Absorbs Edline, Keeps Product Line Intact Read More »

Blackboard Acquisition may Solidify Gilfus Education Group Prediction of an Enterprise Education Platform

Reactions about the Blackboard acquisition from students and recent graduates at the Gilfus Education Group’s Education Research Center at George Mason University were mostly positive. Lauren Heimburg, a recent graduate with bachelor’s degrees in both mathematics and psychology from the University of Virginia provided the following insights: “I think Blackboard’s acquisition will cause UVA to intensify its focus on online learning initiatives in order to remain competitive in coming years. Enterprise Education Platforms can improve colleges and universities by enabling them to provide more efficient systems and facilities to their students and faculty and by simplifying their internal operations.”

Blackboard Acquisition may Solidify Gilfus Education Group Prediction of an Enterprise Education Platform Read More »

Blackboard May Lure Bid as High as $65 a Share, Stifel Says

Blackboard Inc. (BBBB), a maker of online educational courseware, may lure buyout offers of as much as $65 a share from strategic bidders seeking to expand in Internet publishing, analysts at Stifel Nicolas said in a report today. Education publishers News Corp. (NWSA), Pearson Plc (PSON) and McGraw- Hill Cos. may consider making offers for

Blackboard May Lure Bid as High as $65 a Share, Stifel Says Read More »

Scroll to Top